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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HugeGraph vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Baidu

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2018

2002

2011

Current release

10.7, August 2023

0.9

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java
Python

Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Users, roles and permissions

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